apt 0.6 not recognizing local repository

2005-09-06 Thread hacker (of golf)
I created a local repository using apt-move on another partition to make space for all the dist-upgrades.  I used 'apt-get clean' to empty /var/cache/apt/archives.  I added the file: into my sources list.  Now, when I do 'apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update', I get these error messages: Ign fil

Re: hotplug (?) scripts

2005-08-03 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 8/3/05, Dave Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got ndiswrapper working on Sarge (kernel 2.6) but the problem is > that I have to physically unplug and replug the usb wireless card each > time the machine is rebooted, and then execute a couple of commands to > bring it to life. > > How

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-02 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 8/2/05, ke6isf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: > > > Yet I'm wondering how other sarge users are going to address the > > security concerns? Backport, install from Mozilla tarball, upgrade to > > unstable, change to kmail/konqueror? > > It would seem that th

Re: wget -c 'problem'

2005-07-30 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/30/05, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/30/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to download a 3GB DVD image (wget 'address'), which goes > > well. But after it's interrupted, I can't continue the download (wget > > -c 'address'). The c

Re: USB Mouse stops working under xfree

2005-07-29 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/29/05, Nobrin ;-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After an "apt-get dist-upgrade" (testing branch) a problem came out: > my usb mouse stops working under xfree (xserver-xfree 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14) > after a few minutes. The pointer simply remains in the same place on > the screen. > > If I plug out a

Re: x-windows-system package

2005-07-29 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/29/05, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed the x-windows-system package, and i found some > unpleasant things: > > 1)xdm is installed and no question is done about it during configuration > 2)the keyboard doesn't work properly as said in a previous message ALT > GR +

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > > > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > > > I'm trying this: > > > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, hacker (of golf) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope it helps, > > Yes, I added: > > kdialog --display :0 --msgbox "`tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | > cut -b 8-` bps" >

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hola ! > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > > > I'm trying this: > > > > root :~# k

howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-20 Thread hacker (of golf)
I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. I'm trying this: root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps" kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0 but, as you can see, it won't connect to

Re: kernel-build-2.6.8 for i386 doesn't exist?!

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/19/05, Saman Ghannadzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I need the kernel-build-2.6.8 package for arch. i386 in order to compile > some kernel modules. However, it seems that there is no kernel-build-2.6.8 > package available for i386. > > What can I do? are there any alternative p

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/17/05, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > known mailing list to find out what is happening in Debian. But I think > this would be an easy way for the Developers to let us know whats > comming in a short email, instead of having millions of users to scratching > their > heads and googling

Re: rsync fails to connect on kernel 2.6.10 over plip

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 5/23/05, hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone successfully using rsync on kernel-2.6.10? What did you > have to do to make it work? For the record, this has been solved. The problem was that when I was loading the modules (parport, parport_pc and plip), I was specifying a specific ir